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> Nature is much too efficient to spend that much energy on something that it ends up not using. And yet nature somehow finds it acceptable to grow a nerve all
by david-gpu 6y ago
> Nature is much too efficient to spend that much energy on something that it ends up not using.
And yet nature somehow finds it acceptable to grow a nerve all the way from a giraffe's head down its neck, loop around its heart and then go all the way back up through its neck until reaching the head. [0]
[0] https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Laryngeal_nerve https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Laryngeal_nerve
- jacquesm 6y agoYes, and there are a number of other examples like that. But that doesn't detract from the general case in the least: if energy can be saved then it usually will be saved, especially if a mechanism lasts for a long time. The idea that the base mechanism of encoding life patterns is going to be on the order of 70% or more 'junk' requires a very good explanation. Why the argument presented here is invalid I'll leave for you to figure out.